Elizabeth Dulany

Burial record:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133700641/elizabeth-dulany

Elizabeth was d/o Daniel and Penelope (Manley) French of "Claremont", Fairfax Co, VA.

GEDCOM Note

name=French

Biography ==Elizabeth was the ward of George Washington, who gave her away at her wedding. <ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=0ygUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA157&lpg=PA157&d...</ref>

Elizabeth's husband, Benjamin Tasker Dulany, gifted George Washington one of the two horses Washington rode during the Revolutionary War. After the war, George Washington returned the horse, Blueskin, as a gift to Elizabeth. <ref>Founders Online</ref>

Sources

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• “From George Washington to Elizabeth French Dulany, 23 November 1785,” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified June 13, 2018, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/04-03-02-0340. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Confederation Series, vol. 3, 19 May 1785 – 31 March 1786, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994, p. 381.]
• "Ancestral File," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/M13S-82H : accessed 2014-10-13), entry for Benjamin

Tasker Dulany.